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  1. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are.
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  2. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    But the past is the past, and you don't get it back.
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  3. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.
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  4. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    What we do is punish the people who are available," she said.
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  5. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    I was not simply tired of the world's iniquity. I was tired of greed in particular and the ostentatious display of wealth that characterizes our times, and the justifications for despoiling the earth and injuring our fellow man.
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  6. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    Besides, isn't it better to let evil die inside its own flame?
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  7. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.
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  8. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    At heart they were secular Calvinists and believed their fellow man was born in a degraded state; consequently, they oversaw atrocities with equanimity and substituted pragmatism for compassion and slept the sleep of the dead.
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  9. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    Baptized Christians ran the ovens in the camps.
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  10. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    I love you, bwana, but sometimes I think I committed an unpardonable sin in a former life, and you were put here to give me a second chance.
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  11. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    As with all megalomaniacs, he had no handles. He was the type of man the Spanish call sin dios, sin verguenza, without God or shame.
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  12. James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave

    People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.
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